-Vault Of The Ages, p. viii.
History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. See here.
When I attended a College in Kent in 1988-'89, my friend, Peter, wrote and published what was generally regarded as a fairly damning critique of the training that we had received. The College Principal did not like it and might have disposed of some copies although I cannot remember details after all this time especially since I had completed my assessments and left early. Peter hid some copies around the College and might have contacted students of the following year to tell them where they were. Not exactly of Confucian standard...
"Time like an ever rolling stream..."
That emperor is millennia dead. Our College is no more. Peter and I are retired. I imagine that most staff are dead. The things that happen to us seem important at the time.
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We have only chance survivals of ancient literature, because copies were expensive and scarce. Nowadays, they're cheap and abundant.
"copies were expensive and scarce"
Which is why your time travellers introduce paper & printing.
Even just a cheap & abundant material on which to write would have greatly increased the number of copies created and preserved.
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